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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I don't hold grudges. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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